The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-19
IL know US, and ther avoid the

tude of the fishes. There is outside work to
be done What Is that see IN tine back
woodsi It is tent The hunters
have mnde clearing and eAmped out
What do they care if they have
wet feet, or il they hare nothing
but pine branch for pillow, or for the
northeast stormi II a moose in The darkness
steps into the lake 10 drink, they hear it right
away. II a loon cries in the Midnight, they
hear IL SO in the service Of God we have
exposed work. We have got 10 camp out
and rough it. We are putting al our care
on the seventy thousand people Of Brooklyn
who they say come to church. What are
We doing for the seven hundnd thousand
that do not cornel Have they no soulsl Are
they sinless that they need no pardoni Are
there no dead in their houses that they need
no comfOrti Are they cut off from God. 70 go
INTO eternity-no wing TO bear them, no light
10 cheer them. no welcome TO greet them!
hear to-day surging up from the lower depths
Of BROOKLYN grcan that comes through our
Christian Gssemhlages and through our
Christian churches. and it blots ont all this
scene from my eve to-day, as By the mlsts OF
Il great Niagara, for the dash and the plunge
Of thess great torrents OF life dropping down
into the fatho1nless and thun iering abyss OF
suffering and woe i sometimes think that
just as God hlotted out the Church OF
Thyatirn and Corinth and LaoGicea, because
OF their sloth and stolisiity. He will blot out
American anu f-nlsl OnfitldultN tllll laAA11
on the ruins a stalwart, wide-awake, mission
ary Church, that can take the full meaning
Of that command: Go into all the world,
and preach the Gospel to every creature. lie
that believeth and IS baptized shall be saved.
and be that believeth not shall be damned
Ireniarls, further, If you want to succeed
In Gospel hunting you must have courage IL
the hunter stand with trembling hand or
shoulder that flincbes with fear, instead OF
his taking the catamornt, the catamouut
takes him. What would become OF the Green-
lander Il. when out hunting for bear, he
should stand shivering with terror OIL an ice
berg What would have become of Dr
Chaillu and Livingstone in the African
thicket, with faint heart and a week kneei
When panther comes within twenty PAGES
of you, and it has its eye on you, and i has
squatted for the fearful spring, Steady
there
Courage, o ye spiritual huntersi There are
great monsters Of iniquity proving all around
about the community. Shall we not in the
strength OF God 20 forth and combat themi
We not only meet more heart, but more back
bone What is the church Of God that it
should fear 10 look in the eye any transgres-
siOni There is the Bengal tiger of drunkenness
that prowls around, and instead of attacking
it, how many of US hide under the church
pew or the communion tablet There is so
mitch invested in it we are afraid to assault
spigots, in corkscrews. in gin palaces with
marble floors and Itahan-top tables, and :
chased ice coolers, and in the stl ychnine, and
the logwOod, and the tartaric acid, and the
nux vomica, that go TO make up our pure
American drinks. | looked with wondering
ewes on the Heidelberg tun.n 1t is the
great liquor vat of Germany, which is said to
hold eight hundred hogsheads OF wine, and
only three times in hundred years has it
been filed. But, as | looked at it
siid to myself: THAT is nothing
eight hundred hogsheads Why, our Ameri-
can vat holds four million five hundred thou
sand barrels Of strong drinks, and we keep
three hundred Thousand men with nothing to
do but to see that it Is filed Oh, TO attack
this great monster of incompetence, and the
kindred monsters OF fraud and uncleanness,
requires yol to rally all your Chritians
courage. Through the press, through the
pulpit, through the platform, YOU must as
sault it, Would to God that all our Ameri-
can Christians would band together, not for
crack Drained fanaticism, but for holy Christ
ian reform. / think it was in 1873 that there
went out from Lucknow, India, under the SOW
ereign. the greatest hunting party thatwas ever
projected. There were 1900 armed men in
that hunting party. There were camels, and
horses. and elephants On some, princes rode,
and royal ladies', under exquisite housings,
and five hundred coolies waited upon the
train, and the desolate places of India were
invaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
nooerOs. and deer. and elephant, fell
under the stroke OF the sabre and bullet
After while the party brought back
trophies worth fifty thousand rupees. having
left the wilderness Of India CHASTITY with
the slain bodies OF wild beasts Would to
God that instead OF here and there strag
gler going out to fight these great mon
sters of iniquity TO our country, the
million membership of our churches would
hand together and hew in twain these great
crimes that make the land frightful with
Their roar, and are fattening upon the bodies
and souls Of immortal men. Who IS ready
for such party as thats Who will be
mighty hunter for the Lord.
remark again: II you want to be Success
full in spiritual hunting, you need not only
10 bring down the game, but bring II in.
think One-of the most beautiful pictures OF
Thorwaldsea is his Autumn 1t repre-
seuts a sportsman coming homo and standing
under a grapevine. He has staff over his
shoulder, and on the other end Of that
stafr arehung rabbit and brace Of birds
Every hunter brings home the game. No one
would think Of bringing down a reindeer or
whipping up n stream for trout, and letting
them lie in the woods. At eventide the camp
is adorned with the treasures Of the forest
beak, and fin, and antler.
II you 90 out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the arrow
Of the Gospel, but bring them into the Church
of God. the grand home and encampment we
have pitched this side the skies. Fetch them
in. do no: let them lie out in the open field.
They need onr prayers, and sympathies, and
help That is the meaning OF the Church of
God-help. Oh, We hunters for the Lord. not
only bring down the game, but bring it in
II Mithridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors, what
enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunt
ing Tor immortal souls. If Domitian practiced
archery until he could stand a boy down in
the Roman amphitheatre with a hand out,
the finge-Js outstretchei, and then the King
could shoot an arrow between the fingers
without wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought not we TO subject our
selves in order TO become spiritual archers
and mighty hunters before the Lordr' But
1t me say, you viii never work any better
thaa you pray. The old archers took the
bow, put one end of it down beside the foot,
elevated the other end, and it was the rule |
that the bow should be just the size
OF the archer; If it were just his size. then he
would go into the battle with confidence Let |
me say that your power TO project good in |
the world will correspond exactly 20 your |
own spiritual stature. In other words, the |
first thing, in preparation for Christian work, |
is personal conservation.
OH for a closer walk with God,
calm and heavenly frame,
4 light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb
l amsure that there are some here who at |
some time have been hit by the Gospel ar |
row. You felt the wound Of that conviction. |
and you plunged into the world deeper: lust |
as the stag, when the hounds are after it. |
plunges into Scroon Lake, expecting in that |
way TO escape. Jesus Christ is on your track to-
day, impenifent man, not in wrath, but in /
mercy. Oh, We chased and painting soulsi here is
the stream Of God mercy and salvation, where |
you may cool your thirst. Stop that chase of /
sin to-day. By the red fountain that leaped |
from the heart Of my Lord, bid you stop.
There IS mercy for you-mercy that pardons; |
that heals, everlasting mercy. Is there in
all this house anyone vino can refuse the offer |
that comes from the heart Of the dying Son
Of Gods
There is forest in Germany, place they
call the deer leapH-two crags about eight
cen yards apart, between, fearful chasm-
This is called the deer leap because once
hunter was on the track of a deer.
it came to one of these crags; there
was no escape for it from the pursuit of
the hunter and in utter despair it gathered
itself up, and in the death agony attempted
10 jump across. OF course, it fell, and was
dashed on the rocks far beneath. Here is
path TO heaven. 1t is plain; it Is safe.
leslIs marks il ont for every man 10 walk |